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Editor Frank Scott (FS) from DesignPRWire has interviewed designer Lo Louise Tam (LLT) for A’ Design Award and Competition. You can access the full profile of Lo Louise Tam by clicking here. |
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Interview with Lo Louise Tam at Monday 23rd of May 2022 FS: Could you please tell us more about your art and design background? What made you become an artist/designer? Have you always wanted to be a designer? LLT: I dream to be a fashion designer when I was very young age. My mother loves Fashion very much but she didn’t have a chance to build up her careers in fashion industry. So she always made beautiful clothes for me and my brother when we were kids. I was so curious how to turn fabrics into a garment, so she taught me how to knit and crochet when I was 10, and I made my very first knitted scarf in that winter. I started to learn pattern make when my mother buy me the first Blythe doll in high school. This is how I started to learn everything about the Fashion industry and become a designer. FS: Can you tell us more about your company / design studio? LLT: Apricott is a Tailor-made brand base in HongKong. Design concept inspection by all fairytales stories- lyrics of the songs; a simple line or a beautiful scene. Focus on mixing and matching withe different transitional handmade skills and modern techniques, such as knitting, crochet and 3D printing. FS: What is "design" for you? LLT: “Design” is something give me the strongest feeling from what I see. FS: What kinds of works do you like designing most? LLT: It’s hard to specific what kinds of work I like to do the most. I love to try new things and work on what comes to mind at first. FS: What is your most favorite design, could you please tell more about it? LLT: The Dress in Red and the first time I used different techniques combined. I knitted the whole dress with red wool yarn and use the crochet lace for the fishtail edge of the hem. And add the Macrame for the color and sleeves. I spent 5 months completing the dress. FS: What was the first thing you designed for a company? LLT: A purple knit sweater. Mix with different tone of the purples and combined knit and crochet. FS: What is your favorite material / platform / technology? LLT: I love to play with yarns and threads. There are millions of ways to mix and match tools and techniques. It's fun and exciting. FS: Which aspects of a design do you focus more during designing? LLT: I will focus on which technique can provide an aesthetic looks for the garments and mix with some new skills that I didn’t use before . FS: What kind of emotions do you feel when you design? LLT: Most of the times I am feeling
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A' Design Award & Competition. |